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    20 days ago

    It shocked me decades ago when I joined Facebook and they suggested friends that I thought that I had zero connection to on the internet.

    e.g. my next door neighbour even though I didn’t put my address in and only knew them for a quick chat over the fence.

    Now they’ll have so much info about people who’ve never dealt with them due to them being able to slurp up everyone’s contacts with WhatsApp (I have no idea how they can do that in a GDPR compliant way).




  • They aren’t a bank in the UK.

    This article from about a week ago says that another guy was scammed and the scammers set up three new payees and made 137 payments totalling £165,000 within an hour to those payees. That definitely looks suspicious and should have been blocked.

    Also, that victim tried to contact Revolut but they don’t have a fraud phone line and the only way to contact them is by sending messages from within the app and it took nearly 25 minutes for him to get the account frozen. That simply isn’t good enough.

    Finally, that article says that Revolut has more reports of fraud against them than any other bank having 25% more than the next highest bank.